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Michael Ryan

Michael Ryan is Executive Editor of The Heartlander. A Kansas City native, he’s been an award-winning reporter, editor and opinion writer at newspapers in Kansas, Missouri, Georgia and Texas.

Education
‘Pretty cool’?: Washington University in St. Louis shows little outrage at professor’s support for harassing Jewish American, Hawley says

Sen. Josh Hawley is incensed by a Missouri professor’s support for tormenting a prominent Jewish American – and by what he says is the university’s milquetoast response to… Read More

November 30, 2023
Politics
WA Supreme Court analysis finds progressive domination of donations, decisions

(The Center Square) – A Ballotpedia analysis of Washington state Supreme Court candidate campaign finance and court case outcomes between 2013 and 2022 shows that progressive… Read More

November 29, 2023
Elections, Kansas City
KC mayor’s attorney using police images in campaign materials, despite the mayor questioning a state legislator’s legality for doing same

After the Kansas City mayor questioned the legality of a legislator doing so, his attorney is using images of police officers in her campaign for Jackson County prosecutor. Read More

November 29, 2023
Opinion
Don’t recoil from an increasingly dark world; it needs each of us to flood it with the light of a single candle

History has tides all its own that seem, like the ocean’s, to lap at our feet utterly uncontrolled by humankind. War. Revolution. Tyranny. Acrimony. Out-of-control animus. Hatred and conflict, unleashed… Read More

November 20, 2023
Crime, Kansas City
‘Drowning in crime’: Beleaguered Kansas City CEO speaks out about downtown crime, homelessness

Exploding crime and homelessness has at least one Kansas City CEO eyeing a move to the suburbs – and issuing a cry for help – even as the Royals are… Read More

November 17, 2023